Karin Stoiber

Karin Stoiber born Book ( born July 6, 1943 in Buchau, then Reich District of Sudetenland ) is the wife of Edmund Stoiber, who was from 1993 to 2007 Minister of the Free State of Bavaria. As a " patron and sponsor charitable and social projects " Karin Stoiber in 2009 was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

Life and work

Karin Stoiber was born as the daughter of a seamstress in the Sudetenland, her father was a city council deputy .. After the end of World War II they had to leave Czechoslovakia as displaced with her family. She graduated in Bavaria training as a bank clerk, and worked in a bank in Geretsried.

In football club BC Farchet she met her future husband in 1963 Edmund Stoiber, whom she married in 1968. The couple live in Wolfratshausen and have three children.

Karin Stoiber - which was often referred to during the tenure of her husband as the " First Lady" of the Free State - enjoys high reputation in Bavaria - especially her human warmth is considered "alternative program " to the occurrence of Edmund Stoiber. In its work for charity puts special emphasis on children and young people, and older people. She is the patron of the first children's hospice in South Germany, which was opened in Gronenbach on 2007. For the " Children's Hospice Allgäu " she campaigned a 2.5 million euros in donations. She worked as a volunteer or sponsor for about forty social institutions.

Since 2007, Karin Stoiber is an honorary member of the Sudeten Germans. 2009, she was awarded together with 67 other people in the Bavarian Order of Merit.